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[jira] [Comment Edited] (LEGAL-552) Clarification of CC-BY 3.0 and
above for use in Documentation
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-552?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17276007#comment-17276007 ]
Ralph Goers edited comment on LEGAL-552 at 1/31/21, 11:17 PM:
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The question I would ask is "How will the license impact downstream consumers of your project"? Would the license prevent them from copying the documentation into their own product's documentation? Justin's answer is spot on, but the reason we use the Apache License is to allow our user's with the most flexibility possible for that what they can choose to do with what we develop. That could include documentation.
The question you should be asking is "How would the use of CC-BY affect downstream users". If no one will care then it probably isn't a problem, but then it might also mean that it has very little value.
was (Author: ralph.goers@dslextreme.com):
The question I would ask is "How will the license impact downstream consumers of your project"? Would the license prevent them from copying the documentation into their own product's documentation? Justin's answer it spot on, but the reason we use the Apache License is to allow our user's with the most flexibility possible for that what they can choose to do with what we develop. That could include documentation.
The question you should be asking is "How would the use of CC-BY affect downstream users". If no one will care then it probably isn't a problem, but then it might also mean that it has very little value.
> Clarification of CC-BY 3.0 and above for use in Documentation
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> Key: LEGAL-552
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-552
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Components: Policy Question
> Reporter: Keith McKenna
> Priority: Major
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> Apache OpenOffice (AOO) project is currently redefining the process we use for documentation and need clarification on the applicability of using older documentation that was duel licensed under the GPL or the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ version 3.0 or later to be stored in our gitbox repository and distributed by the project.
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